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Prejudgment Interest In International Arbitration, Jeffrey M. Colon, Michael S. Knoll

Jeffrey M. Colon

Tribunals in international arbitration are regularly asked by claimants to award prejudgment interest. Unless foreclosed by an agreement between the parties, there is widespread agreement prejudgment interest should put the claimant in the same position as it would have been had it not been injured by the respondent. However, there is little consensus how to calculate prejudgment interest in order to accomplish that purpose. In this Essay, we describe the proper method of calculating prejudgment interest based on sound financial principles. Using the paradigm that the respondent has forced the claimant to make an involuntary loan to the respondent, we …

Efectos De La Constitucionalización Del Arbitraje, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Se analiza aquí cuáles son los efectos de que la Carta suprema del Ecuador haya reconocido la figura de los medios alternativos de solución de conflictos, entre los que se encuentra el arbitraje. Primero se relata la historia de esta constitucionalización (cap. I), para luego revisar cómo se acoplan estos medios al principio constitucional de unidad jurisdiccional (cap. II). En los capítulos III a VII se analiza la naturaleza de estos medios, que ha de considerarse como el núcleo esencial del derecho constitucional a usar estos medios. Los capítulos VIII y IX analizan otros efectos adicionales: la garantía de inderogabilidad …

Arbitration In Argentina, Felipe Eduardo Zabalza, Martín Torres Girotti

Felipe Eduardo Zabalza

The article is an analysis of arbitration law and procedures in Argentina, as well as recent decisions by the Courts.

Arbitration In Argentina - The Judicial Court’S Review On The Arbitration Awards, Felipe Eduardo Zabalza, Leandro Javier Caputo

Felipe Eduardo Zabalza

The nullity recourse against an arbitration award is not aimed at challenging alleged errors in iudicandum, nor is it possible to use it to obtain elliptically a judicial revision of an adverse award, since that would imply the degeneration of arbitration, depriving it of one of its most precious benefits.

A decision in re Decathlon España S.A. vs. Bertone, Luis, handed down by the National Court of Appeals on Commercial Matters, Chamber D, stated that “the higher or lesser amount of said control depends on the same will which gave rise to arbitration: it will be of a maximum extension …